Show S AND PROTECTED WEALTH M wages of paper makers and helpers vary in different according to the supply J demand for the so-called protective r according to the re- of the commissioner of labor the years from 1888 to er makers received average jes as Canada paper working from 60 to 66 its per received from to per New 6 per day from 72 cents per working 72 hours week day of 10 hours from tents to 72 hours per lanada has free France w tariff and the United States ery high to the above tariff has nothing whatever lo with the wages it is labor supply and demand for that regulates h tariff simply means high s for manufactured the tariff increased price s into the pockets of the pro-ed manufacturer and the people have to pay very person uses writing pa-and and the extra price that they have to pay them goes into the paper The are the wealthiest paper ers in the and they 5 made rich by the protective f- Any person buying a 1 of paper has to add his to the Cranes or some other 1 PaPer paper the I never J any of the tariff increased A little history of the Crane and the tariff will be investing at this Winthrop Murray Crane of the Trust and the Elec-eal Trus also senator from is of a family of The capital which tabled Murray Crane to enter 0 pities and electricity and be- a dominant factor in iame from fat government eon- J and The Crane family has been making paper for a and has always taken pride in what it says is the finest paper in At Mass where Winthrop Murray Crane was are two Crane operating four paper mills in Dalton and Pittsfield and owning a large interest in another Pittsfield Commercial writing papers and banknote paper and fancy letter stationery are the Crane When Crane went to the senate he transferred to his Winthrop Murray his terest in the mill holding the government which were secured by keen competition in 1879 and have been renewed from time to The Four Crane The senator and his Zenas own the Bay State mill in They employ making a fine grade of writing This mill they have conducted since The government are held by Crane operating the Old the Pioneer and the Government Crane comprise Zenas Fred G. a and Winthrop Murray United States stamps and contracts are printed on Crane paper from the Government The Old Berkshire manufactures two and a half tons a day of commercial writing paper and the Pioneer is devoted largely to manufacture of banknote paper for foreign notably Canada and La in Get It AIL For years no one else has offered to bid for the government's currency Foreign competition is out of the the tariff wall is so high competition would break its neck scaling Big Business saw to it that this wall wasn't except in inconspicuous when was in The Crane continues to fatten from the Revision for Crane This is how the Crane products fared at the hands of the Payne-Aldrich tablet and typewriter 10 to 15 pounds per duty increased from 2 cents per pound and 10 per cent ad from 2 cents 20 per cent to 3 cents and 23 per Same classes of paper weighing more than fifteen pounds per changed from cents and 15 per cent to 3 cents and 25 per from cents and 25 per cent to 3 cents cents and 25 per Parchment 2 cents perl pound and 10 per cent ad I duty 20 to 35 per duty What Cranes Want Comes Free of Of the materials which enter into the Crane Linen clippings no old rags are used in making the paper left on the free list Sizing which is and cooked to produce a liquid dressing for reduced from 15 per cent duty to the free Another 10 Per Cent for the The Cranes are associated with manufacturers in Pittsfield in marketing fancy brands of paper under the name of the Crane Pike They employ about mostly who receive from 7 to 15 cents per hour and board in this plant during the busy They turn out all kinds of colored and fancy which is protected by an 10 per cent above the rates of duty plain Consistently for the By the discriminating of the metals for which Senator Crane the Electrical Trust interests of the Crane family are protected by 45 per cent duty on virtually every article made by the General Electric company and the Western Electric Nearly all electrical supplies imported are brought in under this Senator Crane has retired from the boards of these electrical companies since he voted for the Payne-Aldrich Tariff for the Crane for every tariff increase proposed by Aldrich and finance He stood for all the favors granted to the Guggenheim to Aldrich and to the Sugar to the Steel to the Coal Trust On all the questions affecting special privileges to special interests the senator of electricity was either paired or present to vote with the and their He was consistently against every reduction and voted against a tariff commission to ascertain the true difference between cost of production at home and Senator Crane has recently been appointed by President Taft as a special ambassador to go through the United States and inform the people what a wonderful thing a protective tariff is for the common |